Amazing iPhone App Car Implementation

Christine Ikeda — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:49:16 +0000

We’ve seen some pretty cool iPhone implementations recently, such as those that emulate garage door openers or media managing remote controllers, but this takes the cake. Jonathan Oxer has written an iPhone application that can interface with his 3G equipped Mazda RX-8. The application allows him to lock/unlock the doors, start the engine and even pull real time dyno stats from the car!

As for the RX-8, it’s wired to the teeth, running a ubuntu box that provides password protected webserver access to the various components of the vehicle, as well as keeping the 3G connection open all the time. Telemetry built into the RX-8 also keeps track of real time RPM, vehicle speed, coolant temperature, throttle position and even maps current location to Google maps via mash up.

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Twitter From Your Skype Account

Christine Ikeda — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:12:50 +0000

In this day and age of communications, it’s easy to end up running so many different messaging clients on your computer that you can barely keep track of which window does what. Luckily, there are often ways of consolidating the functionality of these standalone clients into much less clutter-prone solutions.

This mashup is not a replacement for your Twitter client by any means, but you if use Skype as a messenger a lot, it may be a convenient way to quickly update or receive Twitter messages, without having to fish through your pile of open windows. So here goes:

Add twitter4skype as a contact in your Skype account
Send this chat message to twitter4skype:
/account (shift+return)
yourTwitterName (shift+return)
yourTwitterPassowrd (shift+return)
Then your should receive a reply saying that your registration is complete

That’s it! The next time you send a tweet from Skype, it should be forwarded to your Twitter account, and you should receive messages.
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